Proverbs 27:3
The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
In Context
2Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes.
4Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie?
Cross References
Genesis 49:7Cursed be their wrath, for it was shamelesse, and their fiercenesse, for it was cruell: I wyll deuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Proverbs 17:12It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse.
1 John 3:12Not as Cain, which was of that wicked, and slewe his brother: And wherfore slewe he hym? Because his owne workes were euyll, and his brothers good.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:3
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. Note, 1. We must do that which is commendable, for which even strangers may praise us. Our light must shine before men, and we must do good works that may be seen, though we must not do them on purpose that they may be seen. Let our own works be such as will praise us, even in the gates, Phil. iv. 8 . 2. When we have done it we must not commend ourselves, for that is an evidence of pride, folly, and self-love, and a great… Read the whole commentary →